Effects are equally positive for high, average and low achievers. ... In individual learning, students work by themselves to accomplish learning goals unrelated to those of the other students. The student seeks an outcome that is personally beneficial and ignores as irrelevant the goal achievement of other students. ... In essence, students work against each other to achieve a goal that only one or a few students can attain. ... This must not be misunderstood merely was group work; rather, a cooperative learning activity presents students with a goal that cannot be achieved without working tog...

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As soon as Siddhartha becomes a Samana he has a goal. The goal is for his "self" to die. ... No longer to be self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought--- that was his goal. (14) The Samanas believe that through the suppression of sensual and physical desires, the self is negated and only then can Nirvana be achieved. ... He wonders whether he is any closer to achieving enlightenment than he was before. ... He wishes to attain something beyond all that he has achieved thus far. ...

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Johnson et al, in their publication, described a cooperative condition as one in which, "an individual can attain his goal if and only if the individual with whom he is linked can attain his.... As enumerated earlier, students see their colleagues as hindrances to their success and rather than cooperating to achieve a goal, they tend to be divided between themselves. ... Great minds with similar goals and passions could be identified to achieve greater and more qualified common goal because, "students succeed in spite of competition, not because of it," (Kohn, 1987)....

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Various techniques have been developed to assist people achieve knowledge management. ... Communities of Practice came up from the need to achieve information sharing as part of knowledge management. ... People become motivated to achieve more when they have the necessary skills to carry out their tasks. ... Also, it is a learning theory that is focused on achieving knowledge development and information transfer. ... In businesses, the Communities of Practice can be in the form of workgroups or teams that work together towards achieving a particular goal (Schenkel & Teigland, 2008). ...

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Giving children education is giving them the courage to take on and repair the world through intelligence and character - which are the two true goals of education. ... It is about striving for goals, aspirations and making a difference. ... Sally Morgan expresses at one point in her reading "My Place" that she only had one goal during her high schooling which was to leave school. Sally's mother had hopes that her daughter would achieve brilliance and believed she had "too much talent to waste" (page 88) and therefore would not allow this leaving to occur. ......

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Before a Learning Organisations can be implemented , a solid foundation should be laid and this can be achieved by taking into account some certain factors: Firstly, awareness. ... Individuals do not have a comprehensive picture of the whole organisation and its goals. ... Companies can learn to achieve these aims in Learning Labs. ... With learning organisation greater motivation is also achieved. ... It has been long observed in several consulting works that far fewer organisations achieve synergy than as...

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The class is a small group of adults who have one goal in common, obtain a bachelors degree in Organizational Leadership. ... My original goal in this class was to get through it with my sanity intact so that I could get on with finishing my degree. ... This is the outer ring "Goals and Purposes for Learning". ... We come to education with specific goals in mind and believe that we are taking the first step in achieving these goals. My main goal is to finish a degree that was started twenty years ago and interrupted for a period of seventeen years. ...

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Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life... (1948 Morehouse College) In my interpretation, this statement is the culmination of the ultimate goal of education in all societies and cultures. ... Gratefully, the Kansas education system at this time is regulated by states and teacher organizations, which implement ideas from the national, state, and teachers to set their own goals, and have their own requirements for teacher preparation. ... And the goals that I hop...

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Thus, he has determined to transfer to a different school to have a better study environment and achieving his goal. ... It's the result of everything people do later on and shapes out the goal in their career. ... Hence, finding exactly what a person wants to do out of their life so that they would feel more delightful to do it and have more motivation to achieve the objective they wish for. ...

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Once children begin pre-school, learning is achieved through the involvement of age appropriate activities such as play, creative and hands-on approaches, inquiry, and discovery. ... The goal for the teacher is not only to get students to speak and share their thinking but also to have them learn and develop through speech and language. As students' language skills develop, classroom "talk" and discussion can be directed towards the goals of exploring ideas and facts found in texts, both written and visual, and in the subsequent development of thought and deepening of knowledge. ... Th...

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This adaptability is extremely appealing in a field with a wide variety of program types, content objectives, instructional settings, and learner needs and goals. At the classroom or individual learning level, new technologies present opportunities to accomplish multiple instructional goals; i.e. - integrated language skills, critical thinking, cooperative and interpersonal skills. ... Matching technology applications to the instructional needs and goals of the program is another challenge. Factors such as financial limitations or fascination with a high-end technology application can lead to ...

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They can also achieve goals (Isenberg 62). ... Each child has its own goal or purpose (Gordon 404). ... Cooperative play is two or more children working together towards one goal (Gordon 404). ... Each child is doing something different, but they are still working towards the goal of being a family. ... An associative player may grow to be a social butterfly, interacting with everybody, but meeting his or her own goals. ...

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They are excited to explore a new world which leads them to pursue goals that can be difficult to reach. ... To them, nothing is impossible and they make even their seemingly impossible goals possible. ... Moreover, the importance of long term as well as short term goals is the foundation of their development. ... In addition to the lack of motivation, their interests can dominate over their goals. ... Yes, relaxing is important; however, it should not prevent students from studying and achieving good grades. ...

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In order to have an effective learning environment for children, goals must be set, families must be involved, curriculum must be hands on and child directed, appropriate assessment and documentation must be conducted in order to further the curriculum and the learning in the classroom. A classroom designed for the highest level of engagement and effectiveness is one in which the children are a part of the designing, one that is neat and well organized for optimal learning, and one in which children and families feel comfortable enough to achieve the highest level of learning possible. ... M...

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The lesson: Introduction My instructional goals for the lesson was for the pupils to recognize a particular text type (a programme) and observe and identify the components of the text type. I achieved this objective by first checking their prior knowledge then providing concrete examples from real life. ... Development My specific instructional objectives was to have the pupils achieve the skill of interpreting a programme, scanning the programme for details (identifying relevant information) to be used as answers to the exercises given and deducing and giving meanings of unfamiliar words...

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" Additionally, "The goal for sport coaches is to select practice activities and use instructional techniques that improve positive transfer to the competitive arena.... Keeping score can make any part of practice literally "count for something"- goals, ground balls, turnovers, (Keep Score in Your Practice Drills and Games | Lacrosse Library, 2014)". ... Clearly, athletes and teams preparing in conditions that are very close to the competition conditions are using the Principle of Transfer to achieve great results in the competition. ... It is a skill and timing that can only ...

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Biehler (p. 225) claims that studies show that when CAI used in conjunction with a teacher's lessons, is particularly beneficial for low-achieving and young students. ... To achieve this clarity, we can present examples of work that illustrate high, average, and low levels of achievement. Such exemplars can significantly motivate students, as well as increase their understanding of their own ability to achieve. ... Baseball has rules, of course, but there is within those rules a large degree of flexibility, so that a player has a range of choices and strategies for accomplishing a given g...

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In sense of metacognitive awareness, "monitor" means monitoring the whole process of learning, to see if anything needs to be revised in order to meet the learner's goal or monitoring what the learner's weak points of language proficiency are, and then try other strategies to make up for this weak point... Researches conducted on second language learning in recent years indicate that most successful learners are active thinkers, decision-makers and good problem-solvers, and they also have great control over themselves and the whole learning process, including goals setting, strategie...

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'' and ''what end do we aim to achieve?''. ... Our tasks give completion priority because they have to make a decision on a restaurant and finally, we evaluate our tasks based on the communicative outcome they aim to achieve. ... As much as we wanted to 'plan' the task, there will always arise opportunities for improvisation because learners interact and co-construct the learning with their personal goals and personal inclinations, which seems to challenge the psycholinguistic view that what you give learners as input will be manifested in the output...

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My personal philosophy is outlined and clarified through the examination of seven questions: What is the essence/goal of education? ... Considering the reconstruction of experience, the goal of education should be the preparation of citizens to construct a more just society. ...

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"However good the education system is, it cannot adequately prepare students for life in the adult world." Is this true? Before being able to comment accurately on the issue at hand, there are terms that are in need of definition. The word "good" is highly subjective. In order to judge if someth...

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Throughout the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave we follow as the main character, Douglass, grows as a human being. It is apparent that Douglass is different than most of the slaves that surround him. Douglass becomes set on achieving certain goals, especially when he i...

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I was amazed that the assessment criteria the children came up with closely resembled achieved objectives described in the appropriate curriculum documents. ... Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals: Handbook I, cognitive domain. ...

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Throughout puberty, young people develop emotionally, physically and socially. The Tanner SMR Model (1962) allows professionals to gauge the degree of pubertal maturation that has occurred among adolescents, regardless of chronological age. The scale has five stages and includes the appearance of pubic hair, development of breasts, occurrence of menarche among females, degree of testicular and penile development and the appearance of pubic hair among males. This was useful in Child Y who over a twelve month period showed physical signs of growth and adolescence as well as a change in his frien...

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Brain Based Education considered how the brain learns best and encouraged educators to take this information into consideration as they planned teaching strategies with the goal of more effectively motivating of all types of learners (Kaur, 2013). ... Brain-based learning involves accepting the rules of how the brain processes, and then organizing instruction bearing these rules in mind to achieve meaningful learning (Duman, 2010; Caine and Caine, 1994). ...

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